The book '1000 Nadelstiche' is after several years of revision - in a new look and with several dozen (!) pages more.

- New entries and additions in the three-digit (!) range, even more class photos, popular record covers and reproduced documents, a rounded discography - the compendium first celebrated by critics and readers in autumn 2000 is now in its 3rd edition even more informative, even more valuable and indispensable!

- The Allstar line-up is now joined by such greats as Roxy Music, Steppenwolf and Status Quo, Tony Bennett, Frankie Laine and Skeeter Davis, Nancy Sinatra, Vanilla Fudge and Bobby Goldsboro, Eydie Gorme, Joe Tex and Freddie Starr and many more - soloists, duos and bands like Peggy Connelly, Shirley Winters, Pete &, Tina Rainford and the Evans Sisters are on board, the list is laaaaaa, the list is laaaaaa.

- The wondrous history of the British and Americans who sang German is now even more detailed and comprehensive - this music-historical phenomenon is analysed and appreciated in the best possible way.

- Conclusion: The significance of the book as a standard work on the subject is finally cemented by this opulent new edition.

That's what the press said about the first edition:

'The Searchers.... gave the name to this magnificent set of books and CDs. With his Nobel Prize-worthy compendium Bernd Matheja reminds us of those times when even lesser known.....stars made their fans happy with the accent of the big wide world.' Music Magazine Scala , Issue 5/2000

'1000 Needlesticks is not only the only book on the subject so far, it's probably the best one ever published.' Medium Books / Internet Criticism

The highly informative, magnificently designed book by Bernd Matheja completely closes a gap in musical general education'. Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , 17.8.2000

'A wonderful collecting CD.....The CD 1000 Needlesticks and the accompanying book prove how many international stars tried their hand at Goethe's and Heino's language at that time'. THE MIRROR No. 33/2000

Matheja's first documentary on this subject ever provides a detailed overview of this marginal area of extreme pop music worlds, which has still been criminally neglected, and the result has what it takes to become a veritable cult book. MusicWeek No. 34/2000

An unusual chapter of German music history....With 1000 pinpricks you get a comprehensive overview of a special feature of the German music market. The book is laid out like an encyclopedia in which everyone can search for their stars.' ZDF, MSNBC/Internet

The CD 1000 Nadelstiche is already good, because unbelievably original, but the book, all respect, something so funny, curious, I think I have never read. Helmut Radermacher, Radio NORA

The less they knew the German language, the more yearning their poetry sounded: English-speaking pop stars who serenaded their German fans in the sixties. Culture SPIEGEL , 8/2000

'Der Treffer im August - 'Although the German lyricists...sweated and beat and pop broke every trick in their art - with a book....you can give yourself the edge on the topic.' Süddeutsche Zeitung , 17.8.2000

The CD and the matching book by Bernd Matheja with an unbelievable amount of details will not only delight collectors of musical rarities. "Note: great. 'Indispensable ! Duty! Listen to , No. 36 / 2000 Milestone Mailorder, 30 / 2000

'The book and especially the CD are a thoroughly researched and amusing contribution to the cultural history of post-war Germany'. Lübeck News , 6.9.2000

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1000 Nadelstiche - Bernd Matheja

They tormented themselves with prehistoric cardboard prompters or stuck their tongues out because they simply had thick faxes: World stars such as Connie Francis and Johnny Cash (see front page) were among the countless Anglo-American performers to whom their respective record companies have devoted special attention since the 1950s: Lyrics in German language - and singing them if possible......

The result sounded either simply touching in the buyer's ears here, or one could get so wonderfully excited about bumping. However, it was not inconvenient for those responsible, because the artists were either talking or at least talking in this way.

Connie and Johnny were still among the few singers who had hardly any problems with what was demanded. Francis, for example, released a single on single, and by means of such mass production, the initial syllable plumbing quickly regulated itself - in other words, lörning at duing.

Country expert Cash, on the other hand, was - like his compatriot Elvis Presley, for example - one of those who had been able to preserve German residual articulation: JC, very professional, reactivated stored words from his time with the US Army in Landsberg am Lech.

However, the majority of the victims, mostly confronted for the first time in their lives with "ä", "ö" and "ü", struggled with the sweaty poems for them, so they struggled with the umlaut and often delivered end products as if a whisk had fallen into a bucket of alphabet soup. Who could convince an ex-Cowboy from Colorado or a trained telephonist from Littlehampton that after their successful retraining as singing artists, the thing with the "ch" would now also have to work out alternatively as a tongue or throat sound? From now on, of course.....

In such cases of hardship, the phonetic pastoral care provided by producers and language teachers in the studios, who were set on march, usually also failed. However, in order not to completely annoy the tormented and to keep the costs of admission within reasonable limits, they gladly agreed on the formula "fits, wobbles and has air".

The result, as in 1964 in the case of the Searchers, was an opening line like: "Ick sasi heute nackt....". And already - scandalous mess! the trouble about her actually harmless "Tausn Naddelschtischa" really started.....